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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 06/10/2026
"Software developers are not okay" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft... The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech. Direct link to the essay: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...
baldurbjarnason.com
Software developers are not okay
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…
The image shows a film poster “The men who stare at Boats” featuring, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Ruper Lowe and Angry Balaclava man.
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anybody else use these Fobumix Easyhalers? Had my 30year+ trusty blue & brown inhalers swapped today for one of these. First impressions are underwhelming. Don't feel like I get anything but air. Doses appear really tiny when clicked into my hand. Or does this one sound like its a dud?
Fobumix Easyhaler (dry)
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
lord humungous from max mad 2 speaking into a microphone:
just buy my mum a bungalow and i will spare your lives.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com over this 2023 article 👇 1/
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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Sean Murray @nomansbsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No Man's Sky Cosmos 📋Own A Space Station 🤝Alliances 🛰️Orbital Bases 📡Space Hulks 🚀Anniversary Expedition 🗺️Star Map 💎Deep-Space Looting 🪨Asteroid Belts 🦠Infested Outposts ☀️The Sun 🧙‍♀️Dev Commentary 🧲Tractor Beam ❄️Ice Fields 🪐Outposts ⛰️Improved Terrain 🔫Shipbreaking
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Dixie @dixie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
PROTESTER VIOLENTLY ASSAULTED AT REFORM UK LTD CONFERENCE SPEAKS OUT "A lot of audience members around us just immediately became very aggressive. "I had people pushing me, pulling my hair and...[READ MORE] HERE: www.paywallskip.com/article?url=... AND HERE: www.thenational.scot/news/2652536...
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Mikey Smith @mikeysmith.com · 05/09/2026
You don't really get the full picture of the walking stick incident until you watch both angles at the same time... (Left via @climate_resist , right via Franceinfo on TikTok) First full speed, then slo-mo and annotated.
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) The Clash - London Calling The Cure - Head On The Door Radiohead - The Bends Interestingly not consistently my favourites, but my way in.
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ooh enjoy the petrichor, or close the window?
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Should have used bran flake box, then I could have double boxed it. Also made my viewing hole too big, but can gaffer that down to a better fit. Need to hold the cheese grater further away from the card. Until the images are quite blurry. Too close and its just a regular shadow, nothing to see.
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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is a dreadful development in our politics, which is bound to see dodgy & illegal lobbying now go unnoticed. And I say this as someone who, 20 years ago, was included in the register of MPs’ staff interests, when I worked for an MP. I never begrudged my inclusion on the register.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 11/08/2026
How to look at the sun without hurting your eyes like a complete chump
Eclipse viewer instructionstrump looking at the sun when he was told not to look at the sun
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Dare say it was, missiles tend to go really fast.
bbc.co.uk
Missile that left crater deep inside Poland was probably Russian - Polish PM Tusk
The missile left a 10m-wide (33ft) crater a short distance from the village of Tarnawa Kolonia, about 100km from the border with Ukraine.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Reform UK already have a comprehensive plan for social care: me and my rich mates will be just fine thanks and the rest of you can go fuck yourselves.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Of course he bloody did. Fiona Cottrell isn't rich. Yes, she's posh, but she's not hundred-millions rich. And nor, for that matter is George. Whose money is it?
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 28/07/2026
Tobi Lütke (CEO of Shopify) is a fascist fortune.com/2026/07/27/s...
fortune.com
Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century? | Fortune
Should how much you pay in taxes determine how much your vote counts? Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke seems to think so.
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@cheapshow.bsky.social Well that's one way to zhuzh up Eli's sauce reports.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
youtu.be/EzvdGKs05Rc?...
youtu.be
Where Did Venezuela's $13 Billion Go?
YouTube video by Patrick Boyle
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Is it good news? or is he still breathing?
Donald Trump is the top trending topic
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com Possibly the most informative article I've read this year
giftarticle.ft.com
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
As you may know the word ‘farage’ means the liquid found at the bottom of a bin or waste container. So the Clacton by election is Binface vs bin juice. Thanks to all who sent photos. x
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Not again, don't make me close any windows tonight. Been seeing lightening flashes for a while now, but starting to hear the thunder too now.
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 24/06/2026
No less than 60 million stars in one image. It's possible thanks to ESA's Euclid mission. For just one day, Euclid turned its gaze to the crowded heart of the Milky Way and captured the largest, most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's centre in visible light. Let's dive deeper 👇 🔭 🧪 ☄️ 1/8
A dense field of tiny stars fills this square image taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The lower and central areas are dominated by bright yellow and gold colours, forming a textured background similar to fine glitter or sand. Dark brown and black patches cut irregularly through the yellow regions, like ink stains or clouds of smoke. Toward the upper left, the colours shift to purple and reddish tones, blending gently into the surrounding star field. Small blue points of light are scattered across the image.
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Think that was the second worst storm I've seen. Sometime in the mid 90's was woken during one that turned Corsham high street into a fast flowing river. Me and my flatmate went out paddling like schoolkids until the lightening sent us running back inside.
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DrEddful @eddedmondson.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026
Absolutely huge storm moving over. Literally thousands of strikes as it goes.
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James Peacock @peacockreports.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Among the most impressive rainfall radar presentations I've seen in the UK. Reportedly very dark beneath... except for the lightning every few seconds.
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
ooof loudest thunderclap I've ever heard. Think something nearby took a strike.
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Say The Thing Tee @saythethingtee.com · 20/06/2026
It appears Grok killed the schoolchildren in Iran, in tandem with a US military under Pete Hegseth who DGAF. Remember when Anthropic said 'No' to Hegseth's demand that they allow the DoD to use Claude to kill autonomously, with no human oversight? Check out this timeline:
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Context for Belfast riots
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@robinince.bsky.social Something to be aware of, if you ever tour Melons in Japan. bsky.app/profile/mond...
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
So the big Brian tweeted this out to his 3M followers over on the other site - and even though it is a cesspit of doom over there - the comments are so supportive. A lot of love out there for physics and astronomy (albeit from a biased subset of Brian's lovely mega-fans) 🤩🔭⚛️
Screenshot of a tweet from Prof Brian Cox

This is indeed a superb letter from The Astronomer Royal of Scotland. “Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why.” I agree - my colleagues in particle physics have also tried, without success, to discover who owns the decision to damage physics research in the UK, perhaps irreparably, at a time when our economy desperately needs the skills and knowledge we develop and teach. 
@UKRI_News
 need to get a grip urgently and fix the problem someone, somewhere, has created.
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Sheep have the right idea, woven themselves into the hegerow. No shade up here - cut this walk short.
Sheep arranged in shadow of only tree in the field on a blistering hot day
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The Register @theregister.com · 07/05/2026
Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer
theregister.com
Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer
You did remember to opt out of AI, didn’t you?
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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is interesting even with Dozey Donny not taking a federal paycheck, he's making Billions in his first year versus presidents within the last 100 yrs! Where is Congress? Why isn't this being investigated? It's not right vs left, it's morality vs corruption. #ProudBlue 📹: sully_dawg_2/IG
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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...
theguardian.com
‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg
The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 17/04/2026
Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 17/04/2026
Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal.
euobserver.com
How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
£64bn is the cost of UK capitulation to pharmaceutical companies and Trump. Secret deal commits the NHS to pay higher price for new and existing drugs No debate in parliament. Govt can tax the rich, cut other services, let people die, start manufacturing drugs and become self-reliant.
thebureauinvestigates.com
Inside the £64bn pharma deal that could cost more lives than Covid
With the NHS on its knees, the UK has struck a secretive new drugs deal. But how was it made – and what will it really cost?
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇
telegraph.co.uk
You are seeing this page because our security systems have detected some unusual activity on this connection. To regain access to The Telegraph website please try the following:
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/04/2026
This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Global super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials. 0.1% of households have more wealth than the poorest half of the global population. Govts funded by the super rich, don't shut down tax havens and the tax abuse industry or levy wealth tax. HMRC goes easy on wealthy individuals.
theguardian.com
Global super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials, says Oxfam
Charity calls for a levy on the very richest and the closing of tax loopholes in its report on offshore wealth
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I haven’t yet seen mainstream press coverage of the extraordinary leak of Claude Code’s source code, shared on X by an intern at Solayer Labs! It is a treasure trove for rivals such as DeepSeek - especially its 3 layer memory architecture. Seems a big deal… venturebeat.com/technology/c...
venturebeat.com
Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know
The leak provides competitors—from established giants to nimble rivals like Cursor—a literal blueprint for how to build a high-agency, reliable, and commercially viable AI agent.
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Richard Oz @osbald.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'd concur with this, but you might want a stiff drink to hand to get through the sixth and last episode.
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